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These ports are included in APP – Associação dos Portos de Portugal, a non-profit association with the objective of exchanging information and debates, contributing to the modernization of the national system of cargo ports. [1] The ports are listed by TEU units capacity. [2]
Santa Maria was the first island in the archipelago to be discovered by Diogo Silves in 1427. [3] By 2 July 1439, a royal charter from Infante D. Pedro, regent of D. Afonso V, referred to the fact that Prince Henry the Navigator had ordered that sheep be set ashore along the seven islands of the Azores (since Corvo and Flores had, at the time, not been discovered). [3]
The red basaltic geological formation of Poço da Pedreira mined for the red stone. The parish is located between the Ribeira do Salto and Ponta do Norte, with its main nucleus along a valley, in an area of southeastern Santa Maria, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from the seat of Vila do Porto.
The Fort of São João Baptista (Portuguese: Forte de São João Baptista/Castelo da Praia) is the ruins of a 16th-century maritime fort situated on the western edge of Praia Formoso, in the civil parish of Almagreira, municipality of Vila do Porto, on the Portuguese island of Santa Maria (in the archipelago of the Azores).
Vale de Cambra; Porto District [11] Gondomar; Maia; Matosinhos; Paredes; Porto; Póvoa de Varzim; Santo Tirso; Trofa; Valongo; Vila do Conde; Vila Nova de Gaia; Alto Minho [10] Viana do Castelo District [10] Arcos de Valdevez; Caminha; Melgaço; Monção; Paredes de Coura; Ponte da Barca; Ponte de Lima; Valença; Viana do Castelo; Vila Nova de ...
Basto, Barão de, Relação dos fortes (1997), "Castellos e outros pontos fortificados, que se achão ao prezente inteiramente abandonados, e que nenhuma utilidade tem para a defeza do Pais, com declaração d'aquelles que se podem desde já desprezar (Arquivo Histórico Militar)", Boletim do Instituto Histórico da Ilha Terceira (in Portuguese), vol. LV {{}}: CS1 maint: multiple names ...
Ruy Galvão de Carvalho (Rabo de Peixe, 3 November 1903 — Ponta Delgada; 29 April 1991), poet, author, essayist and professor, who was notable for his biography of the life and published works of Antero de Quental, and a diverse literary collection under the pseudonym Abd-el Kader, as well as his Antologia Poética dos Açores
Flag of the Azores. The political status of the Azores is defined by the Political-Administrative Statute of the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Portuguese: Estatuto Político-Administrativo da Região Autónoma dos Açores, EPARAA), which acts as the standard legal constitutional framework for the autonomy of the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.